Current Events - 2017

Cardinal Pietro Parolin

Message from Cardinal Pietro Parolin

Current EventsCardinal Pietro Parolin

Cardinal Pietro Parolin sends a Message to the organizers and participants of the 38th Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples.

Parliament at Sunset by Mike Gimelfarb/Wikimedia Commons

Embracing the unexpected

Current EventsGiuseppe Pezzini

On June 17th, the 4th edition of the London Encounter took place. An occasion for scientists, theologians, and common people to tackle a challenging topic: to look with sympathy at what we can’t foresee.

St. Ann's Square tributes and memorials, Manchester, May 2017 (via Wikimedia Commons)

Manchester: "Stronger and Taller than Death"

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The UK CL community has published a leaflet after the attack in Manchester. Amongst the pain and disbelief, "let us look at this pity and at this thirst, at this infinite desire for good, beauty, life, justice that we all are."

My heart is glad because you live, oh Christ

Current EventsJulián Carrón

Notes of the introduction of Fr. Julián Carrón to the Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation (Rimini, April 28, 2017). "... Let us elevate our awareness, let us reawaken our responsibility!"

London Commuters. Traces

The beginning on two wheels

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A surprising friendship is discovered among the frenetic London pace. A friendship among people that does not limit or isolate, but rather "illuminates everything".

Reading, England

A light amid the storm

Current EventsGiuseppe Pezzini

The drama of separation, living faith in secularized cities, relationships at work. Five hundred people met for the annual meeting between Fr. Julián Carrón and the Northern European CL communities. The theme: daily life, and what illuminates it.